Living in lockdown KS3 reading workbook

A series of six reading activities featuring the tales of survivors as well as freshly published stories and poems about the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, for students to read and respond to. The stories might help students empathise or provide perspective on their own feelings of confinement in 'lockdown'.

The activities build on various reading skills: skimming and scanning, information retrieval, inference and personal response to a text. The activities are:

• stories of survival research task
• Anne Frank: a survival story in focus
• Joe Wicks: exercising to feel good
• 'Murkaster': comparing this town with your own
• poems to help you feel hopeful
• independent reading activities.

The texts can all be found online via the links provided.